WORLD_ Nobel Peace Prize for chemical watchdog is an 'award to Assad'

Nobel Peace Prize for chemical watchdog is an 'award to Assad'

The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to a chemical weapons inspectors has been attacked as premature and giving support to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

By Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent
2:30PM BST 11 Oct 2013


Opponents of the Syrian dictator said the award of the prize to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons supported the deal by which the Syrian regime avoided US military intervention by agreeing to surrender its chemical stockpile.

The Nobel Prize committee said Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons had won the award for its past work, not just because of its recently embarked project to remove and destroy Syria's chemical weapons programme.

However, its chairman, Thorbjørn Jagland, added: "Recent events in Syria, where chemical weapons have again been put to use, have underlined the need to enhance the efforts to do away with such weapons."

Inspectors were allowed in after Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, and John Kerry, the US secretary of state, struck a deal as a way of warding off American military intervention.

At the time Syrian opposition activists and rebels, including in Ghouta, the scene of the chemical weapons attack in August that killed hundreds of people, said that it allowed Mr Assad to consolidate his grip on power.


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"They are insulting the martyrs, intentional humiliation of the victims," an activist who tweets as "Shami Witness" said. "This is an award to Assad and Putin."

The criticism was also taken up by analysts and human rights workers, who pointed out that the organisation had been given the award in the one year during its 16-year existence when chemical weapons had been used on a mass scale.

"I would have thought 2013 would have been a year for soul searching at OPCW, not accolades," said Nadim Houry, director of the Beirut office of Human Rights Watch.

Salman Sheikh, director of the Brookings Institution in Doha, Qatar, said: "Let's face it, Kerry, Lavrov and Assad helped OPCW win. I doubt many folks knew much about OPCW before."

In fact, OPCW did oversee the partial dismantling of the chemical weapons arsenal of Col Muammar Gaddafi of Libya after his rapprochement with the West and before the uprising against its rule.

That programme, however, was subject to delays.



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